Educação permanente como dispositivo de gestão do sistema de saúde

Abstract

The present work is a qualitative descriptive study, whose general objective was to analyze Permanent Health Education (EPS) as a management device for health professionals in the Minas Gerais Superintendences and Regional Health Management. General. In this scenario, the scenario was comprised of 28 Superintendencies and / or Regional Health Management of the state of Minas Gerais, and the participants were 41 health professionals, who work in the management of projects and programs developed in these spaces. Data collection took place between December 2018 and March 2019, through a semi-structured questionnaire, applied through electronic forms. To finalize the data collection, the criterion of theoretical densification was employed. The contents of the forms were consolidated and treated through the office package tools, and later analyzed in the light of dialectical hermeneutics. The results were organized into the following categories: Understandings about continuing health education; Health management as a daily professional practice in the Regional Health Superintendencies and Regional Health Management, and health management in the context of vocational training. From the categories emerged five nuclei of meaning, from which it was possible to infer that the participants of this study understand Permanent Health Education as a Learning Teaching Process, of high importance in the development of their daily activities, however, they show difficulties in clearly defining concept and its application in their work contexts. Structural and management difficulties that limit the consolidation of Permanent Health Education as a management device were also highlighted, as well as the need to rethink the current pedagogical models. The study aims to contribute to the strengthening of the discussions about the National Policy of Permanent Education in Health, as well as highlighting it as a possibility of management device in the Unified Health System, especially regarding the needs of the Superintendencies. and Health Management.